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   From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com   
      
   "max headroom"  wrote in   
   news:10hpril$262kb$5@dont-email.me:   
      
   > In news:10hpooj$25166$2@dont-email.me, Webbster   
   >  typed:   
   >   
   >> Klaus  Schadenfreude    
   >> wrote in   
   >> news:inrvjk53b7ren0jptlv46hv1v4c615vdio@Is.Rudy.Canoza.dead.yet.com:   
   >   
   >>> Australia's Machete Amnesty WORKS! None killed with machete on Bondi   
   >>> Beach!   
   >   
   >>> Australian state rolls out machete ‘disposal bins’ ahead of ban   
   >   
   >>> An Australian state has asked citizens to surrender machetes at   
   >>> disposal bins ahead of a statewide ban on the weapons aimed at   
   >>> combating knife crime.   
   >   
   >>> Australia’s state of Victoria on Thursday announced that more than   
   >>> 40 machete disposal bins will be available at police stations across   
   >>> the state to allow citizens to safely get rid of the weapons without   
   >>> a penalty before the Sept. 1 ban begins.   
   >   
   >>> “Owning, carrying, using, buying, or selling a machete without a   
   >>> valid exemption or approval will be a criminal offense,” the   
   >>> Victorian government said in a statement.   
   >   
   >>> The government is running a “Machete Amnesty” period from Sept. 1 to   
   >>> Nov. 30 to support the safe disposal of machetes. Those who do not   
   >>> surrender their machetes during the amnesty period may face   
   >>> imprisonment of up to two years or a fine of more than $47,000 AUD   
   >>> ($31,725 US dollars).   
   >   
   >> KKKlaun continues his goulish[sic] dance of glee that AU had a   
   >> notible[sic] mass shooting after so many years. He celebrated not the   
   >> hero that disarmed one of the attackers, rather he finds glee in the   
   >> number of dead and wounder.[sic]   
   >   
   > Eh, it's only fair after years of the aushole dechucka doing the same   
   > in t.p.g.   
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   Prior to the passage of the NFA [National Firearms Agreement], Australia   
   had millions of guns. The NFA established a national gun registry, a 28-   
   day waiting period for buying a gun, strict gun-licensing rules, and   
   other provisions.¹ The result was that gun-related murders declined and   
   mass shootings more or less disappeared. This account is from a 2016   
   assessment of the NFA’s effects:   
      
       The risk of an Australian dying by gunshot remains less than half   
   what it was before Port Arthur. Research shows that murderers did not   
   move to other methods.   
      
       But although Australia hasn’t seen a public mass shooting since 1996,   
   we have no shortage of firearm-related crime. Gun owners who know each   
   other well – be they family members or gang members – have always been   
   the ones to kill each other most frequently.   
      
       Then there’s the killer already in the room. About 80% of gun deaths   
   in Australia have nothing to do with crime. Instead, they’re suicides and   
   unintentional shootings.   
      
   So:   
      
       People in Australia still own guns.   
      
       The NFA did not stop all gun violence.   
      
       But it seriously curbed the kind of random gun violence that is most   
   preventable. And it all but eliminated mass shootings.   
      
      
      
      
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